So, since coming here, I've been accosted left and right by ML's calling me a Lib for not being a ML. Essentially that's what it's come down to.

My personal philosophy aligns with Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Bookchin. I consider myself an Anarcho-Communist or Communalist, depending on the situation, I suppose.

I firmly oppose fascism and authoritarianism. I believe in direct democracy and the inherent goodness of humanity.

I really thought that I had found a place where leftist thought was going to be welcomed, but so far I have not found it here. All I've found are hateful people who want me to leave.

Like I said elsewhere, it's almost as if they don't want new people to join their cause. Like they're actively pushing people away who could have the potential to learn, and who have explicitly come here to learn and to engage in good faith.

I just don't get it. I feel like our cause will never come to fruition because of these types of attitudes.

  • newdude101 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This reply made me make an account after a long time lurking.

    How old are you? The way you type gives off major vibes of either being extremely immature or being a wrecker.

    You need to do a lot more research before you comment the way you do friend, even in this latest reply you show evidence of having no clue what you're saying. How does feudalism display nationalism if the nation state didn't exist during the feudal epoch?

    You're asking a community to give you a level of respect that your behavior so far doesn't command, might seem harsh friend but you need to realise this.

    • Guy_Dudeman [comrade/them,he/him]
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      3 years ago

      How old are you? The way you type gives off major vibes of either being extremely immature or being a wrecker.

      I'm 40.

      LOL. Why is it always the same old shit? Kids accusing their elders of being kids?

      In fact, I'm willing to bet that the ONLY people who use this line of ad-hominem are under 35. How old are YOU, kid?

      How does feudalism display nationalism if the nation state didn’t exist during the feudal epoch?

      Sigh. Again, you guys are using academic definitions for words - as if words can only have a single meaning at all times throughout all ages.

      What is called a "nation" today was called a "kingdom" or "fiefdom" back then. Words change, but meanings remain the same.

      The United Kingdom is actually a perfect example of this. It's a kingdom that we call a Nation now, because that's the meaning of both words.

      • comi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Nation-states are a recent invention, like Anglo-saxon kingdom was not a nation, I implore you to read history of feudalism

        • Guy_Dudeman [comrade/them,he/him]
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          3 years ago

          LOL. Again, you're hung up on dictionary definitions of words and not what the words actually mean.

          A kingdom IS a nation. It is a geographical area within which a governing body has authority and sovereignty.

          • comi [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            What authority? They didn’t use same coins, the law was the dictate of local lord, not some codex, judiciary was the lord. Borders? What borders? Common language? Common identity? They don’t know who the king was, outside of seeing new shiny coins, languages were unintelligible in some places 100 miles from each other. There were no taxes to nation, all your interaction was confined to your lord and maybe church taxation.

            What exactly nation-like characteristic they’ve shown?

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            THE FUCKING DICTIONARY DEFINITION IS WHAT WORDS ACTUALLY MEAN! THATS WHAT A DEFINITION IS! You can't be perscriptivist with language to the point that others have no fucking clue what you're talking about. That's stupid, you might as well just speak gibberish. You'll never be able to communicate if you just make up what words mean and expect people to take you seriously.

          • newdude101 [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Ok cool, then if you're using that definition what does it mean for feudal "nation" to be nationalistic. And from that, how is a feudal "nations" nationalism an indication of fascism?

            Hmm see how you get nowhere when you use words differently to how they're used in a context like a forum without defining what you actually mean without reference to anything else?

      • newdude101 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Cool, was just asking your age because of the possibility that you were a younger person not aware enough of the background of some of the topics you're talking about. Obviously I touched a nerve.

        Your take on semiotics is interesting and completely wrong in this case. Yes words can change and meanings stay the same, but you are not using the meaning of these things correctly.